Proverbs 17:12 - Tree of Life Version

Better to meet a bear robbed of her cubs than to deal with a fool in his folly.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

Let a bear robbed of her whelps meet a man, Rather than a fool in his folly.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

Let [the brute ferocity of] a bear robbed of her whelps meet a man rather than a [self-confident] fool in his folly [when he is in a rage]. [Hos. 13:8.]

American Standard Version (1901)

Let a bear robbed of her whelps meet a man, Rather than a fool in his folly.

Common English Bible

Safer to meet a bear robbed of her cubs than fools in their folly.

Catholic Public Domain Version

It is more expedient to meet a bear robbed of her young, than the foolish trusting in his own folly.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

It is better to meet a bear robbed of her whelps, than a fool trusting in his own folly.

Proverbs 17:12 Tagairtí Cros

2 Samuel 17:8

Hushai then added, “You know your father and his men. They are mighty men, and they are embittered in their souls like a bear robbed of her cubs in the wild. Your father is an expert in warfare, and won’t spend the night with the troops.

2 Kings 2:24

So he turned around and looked at them and cursed them in the Name of Adonai. Then two she-bears came out of the woods and mauled 42 of the boys.

Proverbs 17:11

An evil man seeks only rebellion, and so a cruel messenger will be sent against him.

Proverbs 27:3

A stone is heavy and sand a burden, but provocation by a fool is heavier than both.

Proverbs 28:15

Like a roaring lion or a prowling bear is a wicked ruler over helpless people.

Proverbs 29:9

If a wise man argues with a foolish man, he rants or laughs, with no resolution.

Hosea 13:8

I will meet them like a bear robbed of her cubs, and I will tear open their chests. There I will devour them like a lioness. A beast of the field will rip them to shreds.

Matthew 2:16

Then when Herod saw that he had been tricked by the magi, he became furious. And he sent and killed all boys in Bethlehem and in all its surrounding area, from two years old and under, according to the time he had determined from the magi.